At the command prompt, type regedit and press enter to launch the Windows Registry Editor.

When you see the above message, press Shift+F10 (Or Shift+fn+F10) on your keyboard at the same time to launch a command prompt.

While installing Windows 11, if your computer does not meet the hardware requirements, you will see a message stating, “This PC can’t run Windows 11.” Windows 11 setup blocked due to missing hardware requirements.

Source: Installing Windows 11 as a guest OS on VMware Workstation Pro/Player and Fusion (86207)

How to fix “This PC can’t run Windows 11” in VMware More information on this and some other fixes below. During the Windows 11 set up you will need to edit some registry keys. This will cover the basic steps of setting up a virtual machine and installing Windows 11. Sudo ~/Downloads/VMware-Player* Installing Windows 11 in VMwareįor these steps I recommend following the video below. Open your terminal application, the command below assumes your installer is in the download’s directory. You can double click on it to open, but if that does not work, we will execute the installer from the terminal. When the properties window opens click on the permissions tab and check the box next to ‘allow executing file as program’. Right click on the downloaded package and click on properties. You can use yay or another AUR helper.įor all other Linux system you’ll first need to make sure your system has the build-essential package installed on your system.

Installing VMware on Linuxįor Arch based systems the easiest way is though the package linked below in the AUR. Learn more about VMware graphics options here. This also won’t require GPU passthrough to get some decent performance.

We’re going to be doing this in VMware as it provides better graphics performance for gaming and creative application. In this guide we will cover how to setup a Windows 11 guest virtual machine on our Linux host.

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